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Garmin Connect Web Confused about SPM

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Confused about SPM

Former Member over 9 years ago

I have tried to use data from a recorded walk to calculate step length. Following data is available:

Length of a walk: 2270m
Activity lengh: 21:22 minutes
Number of steps shown before I stopped the activity: 2504
SPM value from protocoll: 128

Now when I calculate the SPM based on data visible on screen I get out 117 (2504/1282*60).

So why do I see 128 in protocoll? This would mean I went 2726 steps and not 2504.

0 Former Member over 9 years ago

Forgot to mention: I use Garmin Vivoactive

0 Former Member over 9 years ago

Tested it again, now the discrepancy is 1,5 spm

Distance: 2090 meter
Time: 21:10 minutes
Steps (display): 2615 steps
Step frequency (protocol): 125 spm
Step frequency (calculated): 123,5 spm

How do you get that numbers Garmin?

0 pshare over 9 years ago

You do realize that the measure is steps per mile not meter - right?

0 Former Member over 9 years ago

I assumed that SPM means steps per minute not mile.

0 Former Member over 9 years ago

Cut second.
Calculate only minutes.

0 Former Member over 9 years ago

Cut second.
Calculate only minutes.

Math by Garmin? This would not explain the diff in my my first post.